Things In Politico That Make Me Want To Guzzle Antifreeze, Part The Infinity

So, anyway, Jim McDougal landed from Kenya at the Mena Airport with a briefcase full of cattle futures and phony birth certificates that he planned to trade for cocaine. "Hey," he said to Frank Marshall Davis, who was handling the baggage. "what's the deal with your kid?" And then they all went over the latest talking points produced by the IWW and laughed maniacally well into the night.

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Or something.

Today, the kidz at Tiger Beat On The Potomac decided to get in on all the Benghazi, Benghazi!, BENGHAZI! fun that's breaking out everywhere in D.C. They brought out the old catapult and, zoom!, into the stratosphere went Bullshit 7, courtesy of Darrell Issa and the various primate-substitutes who take him seriously.

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) accused President Barack Obama of misleading the public about the talking points used by then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to discuss the attack. "It's disturbing, and perhaps criminal, that these documents were kept from the public. It comes in a week in which the American people have learned that you cannot believe what the White House says...and you cannot believe what the president says," Issa said at an Oversight hearing.

All of this, of course, has erupted because a memo appeared in which a White House media consultant was revealed to have consulted with the White House on the media. This has occasioned a major uprising among the dork caucus in the White House press corps. (The White House Correspondents Dinner this weekend should be especially revolting. Stay off Twitter for three days. I'm warning you.) Senator Huckleberry J. Butchmeup took to the airwaves with one of America's most prominent thought-leaders to roll up the sleeves of his T-shirt, stick a pack of Luckies in one of them, and throw down a 16-ounce Budweiser, crushing the can on his forehead.

"Some guy said this about me yesterday on the left: The only reason I cared about [Benghazi] was because I have six tea party opponents. Well, if that's true, I'm the biggest scumbag in America," Graham said in a Thursday interview on The Mike Gallagher Show. "I don't think that's true. I know it's not true. It would be almost impossible for Lindsey Graham -- given who I am and what I've been doing for the last 20 years -- not to care about those in harm's way, who get killed, and not go on to hold the administration accountable that lied about it...The scumbags are the people in the White House who lied about this," Graham added later.

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He's a lumberjack and he's OK.

There are some signs that the Bigfeet are starting to get their Whitewater on, too. Summer's coming. So are midterm elections. So is the possibility of another Clinton's running for president, and this one was Secretary Of State when the White House media consultant consulted with the White House about the media. The moon is moving rapidly into the House of Stupid again.

So how could TBOTP resist? Thus we get a thousand or so words from Issa and the assorted other Republican opportunists.

Benghazi is an ongoing line of attack against the White House for Republicans - one that helps rile up the GOP base ahead of the 2014 midterm elections. The main campaign talking point for Republicans has been the unpopularity of Obamacare, but following the release of the Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes' email this week, their attention again turned to this explosive issue. "We have a major, major scandal," said Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) on Fox News on Thursday, who has often played point on the issue for Republicans. "We have lies that are perpetuated by this White House."

Is the fact that something is a "line of attack" really news? Is the fact that it riles up rubes who are in a permanent state of rile news? Aren't we at least obligated to ask what exactly the scandal is here, and what its motive might be? (The answers are a) nobody's really sure, and b) the White House feared that if "it" go out, America would have turned en masse to the geopolitical brilliance that was Willard Romney.) Dave Weigel gives it a shot here, but comes up empty. The puppet show goes on.

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